PSY270H1 Chapter 11: PSY270 - Chp11
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Language is a system of communication that uses sounds or symbols that enable us to express our feelings, thoughts, ideas, and experiences. Human language can be distinguished from animal communication by its creativity, hierarchical structure, governing rules, and universality. Modern research in the psychology of language blossomed in the 1950s and 1960s, with the advent of the cognitive revo- lution. One of the central events in the cognitive revolution was chomsky"s critique of skinner"s behavioristic analysis of language. Chomsky: proposed human language is coded in the genes > genetically coded for everything; underlying basis is similar. 4 major concerns of psycholinguistics: comprehension: how do ppl understand/write language, speech production: how do ppl produce speech, representation: how is language represented in the mind and in the brain, acquisition. All the words a person knows are his or her lexicon. The e ect of meaning on the perception of phonemes is illustrated by the phonemic restoration e ect.
